If the first images the letters S-E-C and the phrase "blue sky" bring to mind are members of the top football conference playing under ideal weather conditions, read on.
On Wednesday, the other SEC (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission), issued a press release containing an update...

Arrowhead Research Corp (NASDAQ: ARWR) was trading higher on Thursday after the announcement that it acquired Novartis' (NYSE: NVS) entire RNAi research and development portfolio.
According to Street Insider, "Novartis has been working in the RNAi field for over a decade and their...

Tom Shaughnessy is the author of SecretCaps.
Network-1 Technologies Inc (NYSE: NTIP) is an under-the-radar microcap company whose strong merits have gone unnoticed in the eyes of institutions and mainstream investors. At $2.30 per share, NTIP is a $56 million company with no debt, $21.2 million...

As expected, it was a busy week for biotechs during the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. Here's a recap of some of the news from the past week.
1. NPS-Shire
NPS Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: NPSP) announced it was being acquired by Shire PLC (ADR) (NASDAQ: SHPG) for $5.2 billion.
2....

BIND Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: BIND) is up on Thursday morning after reporting positive news at the close Wednesday.
The company reported results of its ongoing Phase 2 study of BIND-014 in non-small cell lung cancer in the "once every three weeks" treatment arm.
On November 19, the...

SecretCaps' new interview with Richard Howe, CEO of Inuvo Inc (NYSEMKT:INUV), is below. (Alternatively, see it here.)
Inuvo CEO Richard Howe
Topics covered include, but are not limited to:
What Inuvo does, and who they are.
Whether Inuvo owns the ADs or partners...

Rather than cherry-picking small stocks one wants in their portfolio, investors can use mutual funds to gain exposure to a particular asset class.
Small-growth funds consist of faster growing companies whose share prices put them into the small-cap range. The typical definition is a company...

Shares of biotech Chembio Diagnostics Inc (NASDAQ: CEMI) got a dramatic boost in the arm Monday morning.
The Medford, New York-based firm announced a partnership with Integrated BioTherapeutics, Inc to develop and continue to maintain "exclusive rights to any POC (Point of Care) product...

Swift Energy Company (NYSE: SFY) has been in a slow but steady decline to the downside. The equity has lost 50 percent of its value on a year-to-date basis. It has also lost 60 percent relative to its sector and approximately 70 percent relative to the S&P500.
This is in an environment...

On September 30, Vimicro (NASDAQ: VIMC) announced that its joint venture, Zhongtianxin, has won a contract to provide SVAC-compliant video surveillance cameras and system to the Traffic Police Detachment of Taiyuan for RMB76 million, or USD12.4 million approximately.
There are a couple...

Summary
- Biofuel Energy (BIOF) has $181M in net operating losses (NOLS) which can be worth up to $63M in tax writeoffs.
- BIOF is merging with a real estate investment company, JBGL Capital, and investors have bid up the stock, believing that BIOF will be able to unlock the NOLs after the...